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In an exclusive interview with the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, TELLES and Deloitte Legal announced their intention to merge in 2026.

Carlos Lucena, António Lagartixo, Francisco Espregueira Mendes and Mónica Moreira have announced the start of a process of integration between TELLES and Deloitte Legal. This will give rise, in 2026, to Deloitte Legal | TELLES. This will be a unique project in the national and international law practice landscape.

For TELLES, this union stems from a deep conviction that the future of legal practice is built on vision, scale, and innovation. It represents a strategic step towards strengthening the firm's advisory services, offering greater scope, technological capacity, and global presence without compromising the identity, culture, and values that have defined TELLES for almost a century.

Francisco Espregueira Mendes, the future managing partner of Deloitte Legal | TELLES, said, "We believe that this future integration will enhance the services we provide, especially in emerging areas such as technology and artificial intelligence, where challenges are growing and opportunities are transformative. This evolution will enable us to offer our clients' businesses distinctive, fast, effective and forward-looking legal solutions."

See the full interview here (portuguese version).

Photo gallery: Cláudia Bernardo (COO of Deloitte), Carlos Lucena (Founding Partner of TELLES), António Lagartixo (CEO and Managing Partner of Deloitte), Miguel Torres (Chairman of TELLES), Mónica Mayer Moreira (Managing Partner of Deloitte Legal), Francisco Espregueira Mendes (Managing Partner of TELLES) and Luís Belo (Tax Leader of Deloitte).